Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FLUB
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
(noun) an embarrassing mistake
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flub (plural flubs)
(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
Verb
flub (third-person singular simple present flubs, present participle flubbing, simple past and past participle flubbed)
(transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
Anagrams
• BLUF
Source: Wiktionary
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